The clothing in question: the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he stepped on the moon 50 years ago next July. <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> On Earth, the suit—complete with its ...

When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test. As part of the Apollo program, experts from Boeing, North American Rockwell ...

Yet in some ways they’ve hardly changed. Now as then, a space suit is essentially a gas-filled, human-shaped covering. (Exceptions include the form-fitting suits Dava Newman is developing at MIT ...

Like all travelers, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins ... Buzz is wearing his intra-vehicular suit, designed to be as flame retardant as the rest of the ship, and made from the ...

the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. The effort to protect and display Armstrong’s suit also included sharing it with ...

The US National Air and Space Museum has turned to crowdfunding to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong ... plan to digitise the suit using 3D scanning. The suit used by Armstrong on the Moon ...